Description
First edition of The White House Years: Mandate for Change and Waging Peace by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, inscribed to the director of ABC News following an interview on their Sunday news program.
Octavo, xvii, 650pp; xxiii, 741pp. Both volumes in blue cloth, title printed in gilt on spine. Both volumes appear lightly read. Both volumes are the first printing, with “First edition after the printing of a limited edition of one thousand five hundred copies” on the copyright page. Both in the first state dust jackets, touch of shelf wear, bright illustrations, Volume II price clipped, both near fine copies. Housed in custom brown cloth slipcase.
This set is inscribed in Waging Peace: “For W.P. Fowler – an important individual in our Issues and Answers program. With best wishes / Dwight D. Eisenhower.”
Former president Dwight D. Eisenhower appeared on the ABC News program, “Issues and Answers” on Sunday, October 17, 1965, shortly after the release of the final volume of his memoirs, Waging Peace. The interview was conducted at his home in Gettysburg, by White House correspondent William H. Lawrence.
This copy is inscribed to William P. Fowler (1938-2022), the director of ABC News in Washington, D.C., who coordinated the interview with Eisenhower in 1965. During Fowler’s time at ABC, he developed their Sunday news program, “Issues and Answers,” which aired from 1960-1981. The show was a response to the success of Meet the Press on NBC and Face the Nation on CBS. The concept evolved into “This Week,” currently hosted by George Stephanopoulos.
